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[James77]

Hi,

I am wondering on you through relevant to SEO in the following situation.

I have a "travel" website and obvisouls as part of that I have a whole list of desitinations.

So I have a drop down in my page navigation, which lists all my desitinations.

At the moment I see have 2 main options to display the lists as follows:

1/. Perfect Anchors, but not good for usability - IE repeating the word "holiday in a list of 100 destinations, looks spammy for one, and when the headline says "Holiday Destinations", then from a use perspective its pretty pointless and takes away from navigation rather than improves it".
New York Holidays
Las Vegas Holidays

2/. Non Perfect Anchors - But better for usability
New York
Las Vegas

So I am thinking - would the use of the title attribute provide a perfect solution?? Or am I wasting my time with this and it is just pointless considering it as an option.

EG - what I had in mind was:
3/. Ideal Solution for both SEO and usability??
New York
Las Vegas

Thanks for you help in advance.

[iAnalyst.com]

I actually had the same issue with a travel site of mine and opted for option #1. Once I establish enough link popularity and and I am firmly in place with rankings I will adjust to the non perfect answers.

I guess it depends on how quickly you want to rank and if your domain already has enough trust to rank without them, if so I'd go for the more user friendly option.

[James77]

I rank well already for these terms (although not always No1) and have the trust.

I really don't want to compromise my design though - and I don't think you should have to for good SEO - IE If its best for the user, then it SHOULD be best for the SE's (in theory of course).

It would be useful to know if anyone has run any tests on this to see if the Title tag can help solve this issue, as it must be a very common issue. I really begruge compromising usability to help SEO, as I see this contraditory to what SE's should be looking for, and if this the case then a flaw in their alogrithm.

Thanks

[MLTGroup]

I've got the same issue. I have a lot of links on my site and I was trying to see if adding title="something" for each link will help or not.

We could always try it and see what happens. I don't see a reason why if they were added in it could cause an issue with the search engines. However if anyone has more experience on this I'd love to hear about it.